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MASTERFUL DESSERTS FOR ALL Customers can order standard avors year-round or indulge in premium cheesecakes or cookies. The bakery also oers vegan and gluten-free options, and oers full-size cheesecakes or boxes of mini cheesecakes. FULL SIZE 12 DOZEN 1 DOZEN

TURTLE MINI CHEESECAKE

FLAVORS ON THE MENU

CLASSIC

strawberry, caramel crunch, cookies and cream, classic, turtle, fruity tootie

3 CHEESECAKES

SWEET POTATO MINI CHEESECAKE

PREMIUM

$50-$65

Miniature cheesecakes:

Miniature cheesecakes: $10-$12 PLATTERS: $90$270

raspberry rose, bananas foster,

SLICES

$30-$45 Cookies: $18-$22

$15-$18 Cookies: $10-$12

key lime, red velvet, sweet potato, apple pie, vegan

KEY LIME MINI CHEESECAKE

$7-$9

BUSINESS FEATURE

Customers can choose which avors they would like to ll in a box of three, six or 12 miniature cheesecakes. Masterpiece Desserts also provides catering services. (Photos by Mikah Boyd/Community Impact)

Masterpiece Desserts Local couple builds business on passion for cheesecake, customers I n 2014, a major asthma attack and the u put Kenneth Brooks into cardiac arrest for four and a half BY MIKAH BOYD

food truck at Rosehill Beer Garden in 2018. The Brookses wanted their products to evolve with them, leading them to consider creating bite-size cheesecakes instead of serving slices or full-size cakes. The couple moved forward with this idea and created their own custom cheesecake pans to mass produce the bite-size treats. With the food truck thriving and customers able to sample more avors, the couple decided in 2021 to move into a brick-and-mortar location. “Seeing the customers coming to the store or leaving the reviews online and talking about how satis- ed they are with the product—that’s my favorite part,” Winsome said. Kenneth said he also enjoys the positive feedback. “Some people are driving from Rosharon and it’s like, wow, we really must have something good if people are driving from foreign lands to come and try it,” he said.

became a high demand [among] friends and family, and then we started doing pop-ups in the city,” Kenneth said. “So it just became so fun that I got passionate about it once I saw that I could create something that people actually wanted.”

minutes, and he fell into a coma. He woke up craving something sweet. “[I] woke up three days later, recovered for three days and walked out of the hospital—had a taste for cheesecake,” he said. At the time, Kenneth was a neurodiagnostic technician at North Cypress Medical Center. When he made a sweet potato cheesecake to share with his peers that holiday season, he found himself swamped with demand for the confection. The demand continued to grow after the holiday season, and Ken- neth found himself juggling his job and his passion with support from his wife, Winsome, a Cy-Fair native and local professor. “I guess I kind of started to make my own business on the side, and then it turned into something that

Masterpiece Desserts 9111 FM 1960 W., Ste. A, Houston 281-965-1535 www.masterpiecedesserts.com Hours: Tue.-Thu. 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.- 6 p.m., closed Mon. Kenneth and Winsome Brooks own Masterpiece Desserts together.

SEEING THE CUSTOMERS ... TALKING ABOUT HOW SATISFIED

THEY ARE WITH THE PRODUCTTHAT’S MY FAVORITE PART. WINSOME BROOKS, COOWNER

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The demand continued to grow since selling cheesecakes out of their home in 2016. The Brooks family began serving the community through farmers markets and their

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